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I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the road blocks that stand in our path. I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit

I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the road blocks that stand in our path. I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.

Barack Obama
Hope, Fighting, Talking
Barack Obama's Victory Speech in Chicago, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2012.

Someday, our children, and our children’s children, will look at us in the eye and they'll ask us, did we do all that we could when we had the chance to deal with this problem and leave them a cleaner, safer, more stable world?

Barack Obama
Children, Eye, Looks
Barack Obama's Remarks on Climate Change at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.

Barack Obama
Knowing, Imperfect
Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want". It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!

Barack Obama
Yes We Can, World, Want

If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.

Barack Obama
Inspirational, Motivational, Good Life
Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.68, Canongate Books

Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.

Barack Obama
Religious, Tolerance, Mind Blowing
A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

Barack Obama
Leadership, America, Effort
"It's Worth Actually Reading Obama's 2006 Debt Ceiling Speech". www.slate.com. October 09, 2013.

The best education I received was working with people in the community on a grassroots basis. Because what it taught me was that ordinary people, when they are working together can do extraordinary things.

Barack Obama
People, Community, Working Together

The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .

Barack Obama
Patience, Perseverance, Real

History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.

Barack Obama
Moving, Lines, Sometimes
Source: www.spiegel.de

We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world - including in my own country.

Barack Obama
Country, Appreciation, Islamic
President Obama's remarks to the Turkish Parliament, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 6, 2009.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.

Barack Obama
Determination, Powerful, Helping Others

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Barack Obama
People, Political, Ordinary

Hope - Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope!

Barack Obama
Hope, Cancer, Audacity
2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

The countries who out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow.

Barack Obama
Education, Country, Today
"Obama Delivers Remarks on the Budget". www.washingtonpost.com. March 17, 2009.

Why can't I just eat my waffle?

Barack Obama
Powerful, Crazy, Waffles
"Why can’t I just eat my waffle?" by Caren Bohan, blogs.reuters.com. April 22, 2008.

[Fall of the Berlin Wall] is a reminder that the commitment of the United States, to Europe is enduring and it's rooted in the values we share; our commitment to democracy, our commitment to rule of law, our commitment to the dignity of all people in our own countries and around the world.

Barack Obama
Country, Wall, Fall
Source: time.com

In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite.

Barack Obama
Education, Money, Opportunity
First Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 24 February 2009

We as a country have to do some soul-searching.

Barack Obama
Country, Soul, Soul Searching
Source: www.foxnews.com

There's nothing that America can't handle if we actually look squarely at the problem. ...Change depends on our actions.

Barack Obama
America, Looks, Our Actions

One thing I don't like is when you disrespect the law.

Barack Obama
Law, Disrespect, One Thing
Source: www.foxnews.com

It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had - to find the greatness that lies within each of us.

Barack Obama
Lying, Greatness, Trying
"Obama turns controversy into jokes, lesson at commencement". www.cnn.com. May 14, 2009.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Barack Obama
Change, Country, 4th Of July
Iowa Caucus Victory Speech, delivered 3 January 2008, Des Moines, Iowa

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Barack Obama
Inspirational, Commitment, Responsibility
Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation . We have to heal that entire community.

Barack Obama
Healing, Home, School
"Obama Says He, Too, Is a Poverty Fighter". Speech at the Town Hall Education, Arts & Recreation Campus, Washington, DC, www.washingtonpost.com. July 19, 2007.